

We’re happy to see his other career as a writer and director taking off. But it’s a loss brought about by such good fortune and success for him. It’s a painful loss, and it was for him as well.

After so many years, he was such a wonderful part of our lives. And it mirrored our sadness and despair with John leaving the show. But it certainly seemed great for the story arc to give our characters something so big to contend with. I think with most shows, if they’re going to have a character die, it’s in the middle or certainly the end of the season. How do you feel about the way it played out now that it’s done? We were in a strange situation and wanted to find out how best to handle it - and we wound up handling it in the most painful way imaginable. So you couldn’t have just had the FBI transfer him? (The fact that the character was revealed to be reunited with former girlfriend Daisy and is expecting a child before he was shot to death should only stoke those flames.) Showrunner and executive producer Stephen Nathan spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about the decision to give Sweets a decisive end, how it’s livened up the writers room and what he’s planning for the series’ upcoming 200th episode. And the move, though spurred by Daley’s burgeoning film career that began with writing 2011’s Horrible Bosses, will likely cause a furor among fans. Lance Sweets, the first regular character in the show’s long history to get killed off, is no more. So, instead of dragging out his departure with infrequent appearances, the tenth season of the Fox drama brought a bloody, teary-eyed demise to his alter ego of the last seven years.ĭr. Goldstein - filming most of this season of Bones was never in the cards.

As anyone paying close attention to actor John Francis Daley‘s schedule could probably tell - the multihyphenate is currently in Georgia, co-directing his reboot of National Lampoon’s Vacation franchise with writing partner Jonathan M.
